In The Nationalization of American Science I warned that the Trump administration’s rewriting of the seemingly mundane Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance was a tremendous threat to America’s historically successful decentralized system of science…

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The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access.

One general motion model, learned from a single wrist sensor, that transfers across placements, devices, and tasks.

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Full GLM-5.2 scan: 30.168% K15 charged-format accounting and a separately decoded 24.967% byte-split exact round-trip.

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China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 prove open models can reach the frontier. Why the economics of frontier labs favor infrastructure owners — and why Anthropic's model-only position risks unravelling.

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I tracked 997 Chrome extensions that changed their titles and measured what happened to their rankings — against a control group that didn't. Title changes move rankings within days, in both directions.

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